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Bigger changes loom with the second generation: the kids are sure to have ingrained Indian values but a world view completely at odds with their parents'. Dilip Massand, co-founder of Masala.com an Internet site for the second generation that he hopes to build into a "virtual diaspora," was raised from the age of six months in the New York City borough of Queens. Massand remembers going to makeshift Hindu shrines in people's basements. "The Catholics had beautiful churches, and the Jews had elaborate synagogues," he recalls. "I remember asking myself why our gods lived in a basement...
Many schools have found a virtual solution to the perennial headache of fund raising. Instead of selling candy, washing cars or auctioning chances to tape your principal to the wall, you can now buy products online to support your school. Internet malls, such as Schoolpop.com and ShopforSchool.com promise participating schools cash rebates of as much as 20% of the total purchase and offer links to online shops like J. Crew, Amazon and Tower Records...
...snowboarding video far more times than he actually whizzes down a mountain. This does not bother Chris Taylor, our San Francisco correspondent, in the least; answering the question Will I still be addicted to video games?, he happily predicts being plugged into a bioport, the star of his own virtual-reality show...
...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...
According to your interesting (yet strangely scary) articles, our children will learn at home through virtual schooling. We will work at home, shop from there and no doubt download the latest movies off the Net and watch them at home. You've unwittingly predicted the force that will ultimately destroy this new high-tech society: cabin fever! ANDREA SKORENKI Calgary, Alta...